{"id":34,"date":"2002-05-30T08:34:39","date_gmt":"2002-05-30T08:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2002-05-30T08:34:39","modified_gmt":"2002-05-30T08:34:39","slug":"the-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"The Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At times I wonder if I should pursue<br \/>\nOr give up the chasing, go home and cry<br \/>\nAm I worth or is an overhaul due?<br \/>\nAt my current state, should I even try?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve lost my power, I run for cover<br \/>\nI need a fortitude of confidence<br \/>\nI&#8217;m outweighed, outswayed, beat by the better<br \/>\nKnocked out cold; sullen is my appearance<br \/>\nThere could be a shortcut; a detour<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m not familiar with the roads here<br \/>\nI could not find a friend at this hour<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re competitors now; that is my fear<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pressured to reach the finishing line<br \/>\nBut I fear that this racetrack is not mine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At times I wonder if I should pursue Or give up the chasing, go home and cry Am I worth or is an overhaul due? At my current state, should I even try? I&#8217;ve lost my power, I run for cover I need a fortitude of confidence I&#8217;m outweighed, outswayed, beat by the better Knocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}